Improvement in ink-bottles



UNITED STATES FREDERICK A. REDINGTON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN INK'BOTTLES.

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 17 3,668, dated February 15, 1876; application filed January '7, 1876.

To all 'whom it may concern Be it known that I, FREDERICK A. REDING- TON, of Chicago, CookV county, State of Illinois, have invented an Improvement in Ink- Bottles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and correct description ot' the same, reference heilig had to the accompanying drawings, in which the tigures are a perspective and sectional view of niyinvention.

The object of my invention is to provide a cork for an ink-bottle, to be used in schools,- and other places, which will enable persons to fill inkstands or ink-wells without spilling the ink, and at the same time will be durable, not being corroded by the ink, and not spoil- 'ing the ink by a corrosive tendency.

My invention consists in providing an ordinary cork with a metallic cap, into which is secured a flexible metallic tube for the outlet of the ink, and a smaller iiexible tube, extending downward into the bottle, as a vent for the air.

In the drawing, Ais a cork, and D a metallic cap `covering the top of the cork. In the Y cap D are secured two iexible metallic tubes, C and B, which pass through the cork A, the larger one, B, extending above the top of the cap D, and the smaller one, C, extending below the bottom 'ot' the cork A. The tubes C and Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim, land desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

An ink-bottle stopper, consisting of the cork A, cap B, and iexible metallic tube C,

extending above the cap B, and the tube D, extending below the bottom of the cork, substantially as described.

The above specification ot' my said invention signed and witnessed at Chicago, Illinois, this 8th day of November, A. D. 1875.

FREDERICK A. REDINGTON.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM H. REDINGTQN, WILLIAM F. FURBEGK.

PATENT OFFICE. 

